Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. They were founded as the Rochester Seagrams in 1923, and they joined the NBA in 1945 as the Rochester Royals. The team won the 1951 NBA championship, and they relocated to Cincinnati in 1957, becoming the Cincinnati Royals. In 1972, the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, and it split its home games with Omaha, Nebraska. In 1975, the team simply became the Kansas City Kings, but it failed to find success in the market and moved to Sacramento in 1985.